So, Chapter 4 picks up with The Cub and Jasmine on their journey towards Norway...

And in case any of you are facing Youtube work blockage, here's an alt version from yahoo video (it's the exact same video...this is not part of the puzzle). This might be blocked too, but hopefully this may help a few:

Hint #7 (12:48pm PT): The appearance and/or pattern of the stars in the sky is irrelevant. The appearance of other things in the sky is not.

Hint #8 (12:53pm PT): For those who haven't already, I'd jot down the conversation. Many of the bubbles are important in terms of their mechanical content, while Jasmine's 5th thru 8th bubbles (and to some extent her 4th) are important in terms of understanding how said mechanical content is important.

Hint #9 (1:55pm PT): Here are general steps to solving the puzzle. You will note Jasmine is very helpful if cryptic:

Figure out what the paths are. Jasmine literally provides clues in her 5th and 6th bubbles to figure this out.

Pick the correct ones (Jasmine tells you where this info comes from in her 8th bubble (Hint #10 is in reference to this step too)).

Figure out what to with the correct ones (listen to Jasmine's 7th bubble).

Arrange the results.

Submit answer.

Hint #10 (3:31pm PT): The Bear's every word - in fact every bit of every word - is important (yes, the Bear takes part in the conversation, if you haven't discovered that yet). Another hint coming in 30ish mins...

Hint #11 (3:44pm PT): If you transcribe the full conversation among the three characters, you won't need anything else (i.e., you can stop watching the surely-by-now-maddeningly-annoying-video). And you can ignore punctuation and capitalization.

Puzzle Rules: The answer to the puzzle is one of four Norwegian cities: Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, or Oslo. Comment freely in the thread, but if you have the solution, please don't give it away to everyone in the comments section. Instead, do the following:

Email us with the name of the city, along with your reasoning (answers arrived at via luck or the wrong reasoning, even if correct, count for participation credit only). And please include your screen name somewhere in the email; and

Post a comment simply saying you have emailed your solution attempt. I may not be able to reply to your original email promptly, so please be patient and check back on the comment thread for the latest news; I may confirm correct answers there.

And remember, as a Grand Slam Puzzle this one's worth 120 points!.

You have until midnight PT tonight to submit your answer. Solution will be posted tomorrow. Good luck!

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I'm super busy at work until 7 or 8 tonight, but will try to get in under the gun after that. So far the hints seem somewhat consistent with the direction I was thinking, but nothing that really kicks off an a-ha yet...

Im gonna stick with the "I'm going with my answer regardless of what the real answer actually is" answer. Or in other words, the "I give up answer, because I just wanna shoot Jasmin in the head" answer.

Jasmine is causing the cub way too many problems. They're having obvious communication issues if she won't tell him what city in Norway they should visit. My advice is for the cub to travel to any random city in Norway and then ditch her.

Can we get a gamecast thing on UBraggs and Mr F's progress (the latter for Jason's sake)?

That indeed would be ironic, Mr C. Add to that the fact that you've in some senses now assumed thursday puzzles, and the appeal of both prize options is somewhat mitigated. Though this morning the SoSG braintrust discussed the limited appeal of the iphone case to non-iphone people...we may come up with alternatives, will keep you posted.

But that is ironic. Even more so than that time I really needed a fork but was surrounded by 10,000 spoons.

Jason, prizes don't slip past 2nd place...if anything we'll try to find an alt-prize for option 1 (but no promises). If you don't have an iphone, the case is still a pretty bomb way to carry a box of cigarettes.

Ok folks, I'm going to bed. Curious to see how the potential UBragg unseating drama sorted itself out when I get up tomorrow...